Braimoh Abdulmatin, a content creator based in Lagos State, has narrated to FIJ how policemen snatched him from the Ijede area of the state on Monday afternoon and drove him to a station on Sagamu Road where they flogged and extorted N119,000 from him.

He said he and his friend were returning from a shoot and heading to Bariga at about 12 pm when the policemen called them over. The police were in a brown, unbranded minivan popularly known as korope.

Abdulmatin and this friend responded and crossed the road to answer, but the men pounced on them, dragged them into the vehicle where two other boys were waiting, and began hitting them.

“They put us in handcuffs, called us cultists and said they would take us to the station,” Abdulmatin told FIJ.

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During the scuffle, he made a video of the altercation, but this video did not capture much. FIJ was able to get a screenshot of one of the video’s keyframes, which captured the face of one of the policemen.

“The police started driving until we arrived at a station,” he continued. “When we got there, they collected my costume and said I was a cultist, then they tied me to a pole outside their office and started flogging me.

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“After flogging me, they said I should call my friends to lend me money so I can pay them to let me go. In the end, they took me to a PoS merchant and made me pay N119,000 which they collected. This merchant operates outside the station.”

His woes did not end there. Abdulmatin said the police then forced him to write a false statement confessing to being a cultist. They also filmed him saying the same.

“They said I should do it so that if I come after them for the money, they will take me to court and use the video as confessional evidence. I am not a cultist but a content creator. My TikTok handle is @matiness_scott,” Abdulmatin told FIJ.

On Tuesday, Abdulmatin recorded a video narrating the full account of all that happened to him and distancing himself from the police’s confessional video.

FIJ called the Police Complaints Response Unit (CRU) on Tuesday. This unit called Abdulmatin on Thursday morning and said they had intervened.

At press time, the content creator and his father were on their way to the Sagamu police to meet with the DPO.